This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
Students the world over need to organize their thoughts before writing, which is exactly what my high school students learn to do. Brainstorming and charting ideas about literature are at the core of the common core, but we just can't do it without easel paper and markers.
My motivated and hard-working high school English students love to read, write, think, argue, and listen.
The best way for them to track their understanding? Charts and markers! It's even required by our curriculum. But somehow the supply train has been derailed, and the community is impoverished enough that the parents just cannot buy the materials we need to teach our kids.
My Project
The bottom line is that charting our thoughts makes understanding everything easier. Whether it's compare-and-contrast essays about Hamlet and Macbeth, or flowcharts of character choices in The Great Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye. My students do this in group settings, and as individuals, all the time. We love to post our work, and generate class-wide commentary. We just can't do it without paper and pens. And that's why we need your help!
We need your support to get giant sheets of easel paper, and simple colorful markers, so that high school students studying complex works of literature can write out their thoughts and show what they know well enough to discuss it.
It is more than a little embarrassing to have to ask for pens and paper, but there it is. We simply need you to help make our classroom work.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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